I use the Kwik Clip tool and love it. I put all my quilting pins in and then go back and use the Kwik Clip to close them all at once. For 200 pins, I can close them all up in under 10 minutes. Pinning takes a lot less time when I use it. When I first got it, I tried to use it after putting in each pin and I didn't find it very useful. But after trying it this way, I find that it saves my thumb from having all of those impression marks which are painful the next day.